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- Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:44 pm
- Forum: Other projects
- Topic: CAN Interface
- Replies: 103
- Views: 113426
Re: CAN Interface
<r>mccleanp said: <br/> <br/> <br/> Another alternative (for the less hardware inclined) would be to use a USB CAN interface such as <URL url="http://www.peak-system.com/Pro.....wUid%5D=16">http://www.peak-system.com/Pro.....wUid%5D=16</URL>.<br/> <br/> More expensive probably, but it comes with a G...
- Sun Oct 30, 2011 9:46 pm
- Forum: Off topic discussion
- Topic: 64-bit ARM architecture: ARMv8
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4954
Re: 64-bit ARM architecture: ARMv8
<r>You can download some slides with a reasonable amount of technical detail from ARM:<br/> <br/> <URL url="http://www.arm.com/files/downl.....ecture.pdf">http://www.arm.com/files/downl.....ecture.pdf</URL><br/> <br/> So far it looks quite promising. I'm really glad that they've bumped the number of...
- Thu Oct 27, 2011 6:50 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Sealed casing
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4851
Re: Sealed casing
<t>Even if they don\'t hack the hardware, I think it\'d be a very valuable part of the educational experience for kids to get used to handling the bare board (providing the ESD protection is up to it, which it sounds like it is) just so that they don\'t build up the idea that computers contain forbi...
- Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:27 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: newsnight link
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2521
Re: newsnight link
Good stuff!
Nice to see Scratch running on the Raspberry Pi in that video, by the way.
Nice to see Scratch running on the Raspberry Pi in that video, by the way.

- Thu Oct 06, 2011 7:41 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: RPi Becoming more Influential over the OS World...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3691
Re: RPi Becoming more Influential over the OS World...
Haiku has had an ARM port in the works for quite a while now... I\'d love to see it running on the Pi, it seems like such a perfect fit.
- Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:06 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: UK Government: Children to be taught programming
- Replies: 93
- Views: 17988
Re: UK Government: Children to be taught programming
<t>That's good news... However, I'd echo the sentiments expressed in the last few paragraphs that Liz quoted - children should start learning to program when they're nine or ten so that the basic concepts become second nature to them. GCSE and A-level age is probably not the best time to try to intr...
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:04 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Other operating systems?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4751
Re: Other operating systems?
Haiku (a BeOS-like operating system) would be a really nice fit for the Raspberry Pi.
http://www.haiku-os.org/
http://www.haiku-os.org/
- Sat Sep 10, 2011 11:37 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: If you could order now..
- Replies: 151
- Views: 35925
Re: If you could order now..
Probaby two B's (or perhaps an A and a B for comparison) to play with initially, then more of whichever type seems suitable for a given project once I've got the measure of the system.